Job summary
We are recruiting for a Pharmacist Advanced-Frailty & Elderly Care Medicine who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
With this role, you will be working closely with Consultants, Nurses, Therapists, and other healthcare professionals to provide an excellent clinical pharmacy service to these areas. Your expertise is vital to improving clinical outcomes and enhancing the quality of life for our frail and elderly patient population.
Additionally, there will be opportunities to work with the senior pharmacy team to plan, develop and deliver the Trust's patient pathways within frailty and elderly care.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values:Include,Respect, andImprove. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will lead the clinical pharmacy service for frailty and elderly care medicine at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Teaching Trust in order to ensure clinically effective, safe and cost efficient use of drugs.
You will support the Pharmacist Team Leader for Unplanned Care (Medicine) to drive forward the medicines optimisation of patients within frailty and elderly care wards and in admission areas.
You will also aim to resolve highly complex pharmaceutical issues and provide balanced reviews of medicines used in frailty and elderly care medicine.
The successful candidate will provide expert pharmaceutical advice on issues across the organisation, analysing a range of highly complex facts.
You will liaise with consultants, nurses and allied healthcare professionals regarding pharmaceutical matters in the emergency department and on frailty wards and admission areas.
About us
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
- The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and person specification, which also details the main responsibilities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and person specification, which also details the main responsibilities.
Person Specification
Qualifications / Training
Essential
- Masters Degree MPharm
- Registered with the GPhC as a pharmacist
- Evidence of CPD to maintain fitness to practice
- Postgraduate Diploma in Pharmacy Practice or equivalent (completed both year 1 and year 2)
- Qualified and registered as a non-medical prescriber (or able to undertake an NMP course once in post)
Previous Experience
Essential
- Relevant post registration experience in hospital
- Supervision of staff
- Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Training of foundation trainee pharmacists and junior staff
- Proven experience of audit
Desirable
- Project management and report writing
- Service improvement projects
- Experience in writing policies/guidelines/PGDs
- Management of staff
- Tutoring of junior pharmacists or foundation trainee pharmacists
- Ability to take initiative and lead on projects including change management
Skills
Essential
- High level of professionalism
- Good communication skills
- Ability to motivate others
- Able to negotiate with staff at all levels
- Able to use initiative
- Assertive and confident
- Good organisational skills
- Ability to manage own time
- Able to cope with stress
- Good oral and written presentation skills
- Able to lead on audit projects
Desirable
- Proven ability to teach a range of staff groups
Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent general frailty / elderly care medicine clinical knowledge
- Able to use clinical knowledge at senior level
- Specialised knowledge of drugs used and therapeutic trends within specialised area
- Knowledge of healthcare systems, guidance and NHS change
- Able to critically appraise research data
- Knowledge of post graduate education for pharmacists
- Confident user of Excel, Microsoft Word and Powerpoint
Other Requirements
Essential
- Experience and evidence of engagement around equality, diversity and inclusion issues in relation to policy, service development and service delivery in respect of both services to users and the management of staff
- Role model our Trust values every day
- Enthusiastic
- Conscientious and reliable
- Team player
- Neat and tidy appearance
- Flexible
- Polite and courteous
- Self-motivating
- Able to demonstrate reflective practice
Person Specification
Qualifications / Training
Essential
- Masters Degree MPharm
- Registered with the GPhC as a pharmacist
- Evidence of CPD to maintain fitness to practice
- Postgraduate Diploma in Pharmacy Practice or equivalent (completed both year 1 and year 2)
- Qualified and registered as a non-medical prescriber (or able to undertake an NMP course once in post)
Previous Experience
Essential
- Relevant post registration experience in hospital
- Supervision of staff
- Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Training of foundation trainee pharmacists and junior staff
- Proven experience of audit
Desirable
- Project management and report writing
- Service improvement projects
- Experience in writing policies/guidelines/PGDs
- Management of staff
- Tutoring of junior pharmacists or foundation trainee pharmacists
- Ability to take initiative and lead on projects including change management
Skills
Essential
- High level of professionalism
- Good communication skills
- Ability to motivate others
- Able to negotiate with staff at all levels
- Able to use initiative
- Assertive and confident
- Good organisational skills
- Ability to manage own time
- Able to cope with stress
- Good oral and written presentation skills
- Able to lead on audit projects
Desirable
- Proven ability to teach a range of staff groups
Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent general frailty / elderly care medicine clinical knowledge
- Able to use clinical knowledge at senior level
- Specialised knowledge of drugs used and therapeutic trends within specialised area
- Knowledge of healthcare systems, guidance and NHS change
- Able to critically appraise research data
- Knowledge of post graduate education for pharmacists
- Confident user of Excel, Microsoft Word and Powerpoint
Other Requirements
Essential
- Experience and evidence of engagement around equality, diversity and inclusion issues in relation to policy, service development and service delivery in respect of both services to users and the management of staff
- Role model our Trust values every day
- Enthusiastic
- Conscientious and reliable
- Team player
- Neat and tidy appearance
- Flexible
- Polite and courteous
- Self-motivating
- Able to demonstrate reflective practice
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
